NASA Begins $1 Million USD Competition to Send Valkyrie Robot to Mars

America's space agency recently opened registration for its Space Robotics Challenge -- a competition that seeks to produce well-designed humanoid robots to assist astronauts on their journey to the red planet. Folks will be working in teams for the contest and must develop a virtual robot that resembles NASA's Robonaut 5 Valkyrie. The team whose robot successfully completes a series of challenging exercises in a Mars virtual environment will receive a hefty $1 million USD prize. The simulation ...